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Vehicle 51124

Class 100

BR Diagram 536

Builder: GRC&W
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30444
Diagram: 536

Allocations

w/e 16/02/58 New to 64A (St Margarets)
c. summer-58 Transferred to Leith Central
Nov-59Depot code change64H
Jul-60 On loan to 66C (Hamilton)
2w/e 28/01/61 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
4w/e 30/06/67 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
2w/e 30/04/72 Transferred to 64B (Haymarket) - 64H closed
22/10/72 Withdrawn from 64B (Haymarket)
02/12/72 Reinstated 64B (Haymarket) - due to DMU shortage
May-73Depot code changeHA
Jun-74 Stored S.
w/e 10/08/74 Reinstated HA (Haymarket)
w/e 19/10/74 Transferred to HN (Hamilton)
w/e 17/05/75 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
2w/e 08/08/76 Transferred to NR (Norwich)
w/e 26/10/80 On loan to LO (Longsight)
circa Sep-81 Transferred to LO (Longsight)
18/07/82 Withdrawn from LO (Longsight)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51124 56316 As delivered to 64A - February 1958
51124 56316 Transfer to 66C - 4w/e 07/05/66
51124 56306 Noted 16/08/70 - at Leith Central1
51124 56314 Noted 06/04/72 - in Edinburgh Waverley1
212 51483 51124 56406 Noted 28/08/74 - at Dunfermline2
51124 56465 Transfer to HN - w/e 19/10/74
51124 56467 Noted 25/10/75 - at Leeds1
51124 56467 Noted 29/03/1976 - at Leeds3
51124 56467 Noted 26/07/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
74 51124 56467 Noted 02/09/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
TS417 51124 50812 56267 Noted 14/12/76 - at Bury St Edmunds2
74 51124 56124 Noted 03/08/78 - at Norwich2
74 51124 56468 Noted circa 10/19784
74 51124 56124 Listed at NR - Autumn 1978
51124 56469 Noted 11/11/78 - at Doncaster5
51124 56469 Noted 25/11/78 - at Norwich5
51124 56451 Noted 02/03/79 - at Norwich2
51124 56451 Noted 25/03/79 - at Lowestoft5
74 51124 56451 Noted 16/05/79 - at Norwich2
51124 56130 Noted 23/02/80 - on 08.50 Norwich – Yarmouth6
51124 56116 Noted 01/03/1980 - at Norwich Thorpe5
51124 56116 Transfer to LO - w/e 26/10/80
51124 56116 Noted Apr-81 - in Manchester Piccadilly5
51124 56116 Noted circa 01/19824
51124 56116 Noted 22/01/1983 - on Longsight depot, withdrawn5

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Martin Lumley
6: Phil Shatford

Images:

Class 100 DMU at St Margarets

7th April 1958

Sc51124 leading a 2-car set on the 12.20pm Edinburgh - Galashiels past St. Margarets on the 7th April 1958. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 100 DMU at Corstorphine

16th December 1967

A Gloucester twin, DMBS SC51124 closest, forming the 13:24 to North Berwick in Corstorphine station on 16 December 1967, just a few weeks before closure. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Peterborough

3rd August 1976

Class 100 DMBS 51124 is paired with a Class 105 in this view at Peterborough on 3/8/76. Ian Francis.

Class 100 DMU at Lowestoft

9th September 1977

Set number: 74

GRC&W Class 100 DMBS E51124 is at the front of a DMU formation seen in Lowestoft station forming the 12:26 service to Norwich on 9 September 1977. Robert Thomas.

Class 100 DMU at Cambridge

1st April 1979

Set number: 74

Class 100 DMBS E51124 with Class 105 DTCL E56451 at Cambridge on 1 April 1979. They formed Norwich allocated set 74. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 100 DMU at Ipswich

27th April 1980

Set number: 74

A tidy looking Gloucester Class 100 Driving Motor Brake Second E51124 was stood in the bay platform at Ipswich, having arrived at the rear of a service from Lowestoft on April 27th 1980. Its partner is a Class 105 DTC, and there is blue/grey set behind. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 100 DMU at Guide Bridge

17th June 1981

Class 100/105 hybrid E51124 + E56116 at Guide Bridge on 17 June 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 16th December 1967

A Gloucester twin, the DMBS being SC51124, waits to depart from Corstorphine station with the 13:24 to North Berwick on 16 December 1967 - just a few weeks before closure. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: April 1982

Three weeks road learning at Toton, most of it on single unit DB975042 until it disappeared mysteriously on the last week. Here Guide Bridge Driver Norman 'Nobby' Robinson is seen here at the helm of the replacement 2 car unit, 56116 and 51124. Taken somewhere in the Hope Valley. Note the traditional brew can lid on the window sill! Arnie Furniss.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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